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			<title>Prayers to the Inner Dragon </title>
			<description> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Spread the majestic matter into My aching body of darkness and ..</description>
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			<title>Dissolving Kingdoms of Nirvana </title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;There is a force that is invincible It is the seizing of the most intimate faith The wide-winged form of deathle..</description>
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			<title>Shiva&amp;rsquo;s Promise </title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;On the white-rose Altar of marriage With the pursuit of the Divi..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Nao-Deguchi/840391/</link>
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			<title>The Magnificence of Wu-Wei </title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;There is grandeur and dignity too In immobility, in acting..</description>
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			<title>Initiate of Light </title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Always the light was craved by lid-capped mindA glass ceil..</description>
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			<title>Permanence</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Fill my cup of dreams, with symbols Majestic, with faces adoring..</description>
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			<title>The Island Suns in Me </title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;My single self encompasses all history The months and years and ..</description>
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			<title>Sleep</title>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Nao-Deguchi/840046/</link>
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			<title>Youth Among the Lillies</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Young love lies sleeping In every adulthood of youth Where are..</description>
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			<title>The Mother's Lasso</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;This day my vital being is an altar&amp;nbsp;All to prepare me for t..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Nao-Deguchi/836978/</link>
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			<title>Hyms from the Overman Foundation </title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I am the clay petal of surreal thirst Not for expression a..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Nao-Deguchi/836969/</link>
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			<title>Tales from the Supramental Ship (Limited Edition)</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Here runs the magic of your skiesIn starry climes and cele..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Nao-Deguchi/836933/</link>
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			<title>My house is abandoned </title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;My house is abandoned My friends are left-out My family is dishonoured So who shall I call exiled but myself?The garden has becomeA home to butt..</description>
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			<title>That a Man&amp;rsquo;s Life is But a Dream </title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I am unhappy to learnTo be unattached to my happiness &amp;nbsp;..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Nao-Deguchi/836889/</link>
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			<title>In the Great Dawn of All Beginnings </title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I may not understand those wordsOr read the treachery in your heart&amp;nbsp;But souls, these elementsRemain the same, like wheels of ..</description>
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			<title>May Those who are Born After Me </title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;If I were close, I would whisper The long drunken eternity Of ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Nao-Deguchi/836844/</link>
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			<title>Like Salt in the Air </title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I enjoy myself so fondly That I stay up all nightIt is not for..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Nao-Deguchi/836842/</link>
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			<title>Suitably the Same Attired </title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I glimpse without resting My legs or my back The little dreams..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Nao-Deguchi/836840/</link>
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			<title>Even Without Angels</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;This an exceedingly bright stuffOf early sun, like mornings swal..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Nao-Deguchi/836832/</link>
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			<title>Death Why Tardily Come?</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;When the death in life Closes my eyelidsTo whom shall I turn?&amp;nbsp;To what part of myselfShall I take my plightMy soul in vaca..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Nao-Deguchi/836801/</link>
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			<title>Farewell to Breeding, It's No Longer for Youth </title>
			<description> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Let me reject then That lamenting kissIt suits me no longer l..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Nao-Deguchi/836798/</link>
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			<title>Messages of my Solitude </title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I am swelled up by the distance Of my sanctuary of privacy &amp;nbsp;A hermitage of lonely weightThe sense of silver o..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Nao-Deguchi/836778/</link>
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			<title>Unyielding Inwardness </title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Time is placid and fluid now Yesterday&amp;rsquo;s midnight till next day&amp;rsquo;s noon&amp;nbsp;Comes in oval-face questions..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Nao-Deguchi/836772/</link>
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			<title>Warbling in the Jungle of Beautiful History </title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I have lived a hungry danceA meditation of tablets and inscripti..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Nao-Deguchi/836643/</link>
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			<title>On the horizon of the new world</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;On the horizon of the new worldWe stood, like idiots For what seemed like centuries Somehow the brave mystics ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Nao-Deguchi/836587/</link>
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			<title>Stuttering Like Beach Glass </title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;This here, was my orphanage Of pure possibility, it didn&amp;rsquo;t leave a traceAs I ventured back into The calamity of words ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Nao-Deguchi/836578/</link>
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			<title>Time&amp;rsquo;s Execution </title>
			<description> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;History is for fools Because the past is dead Religions the m..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Nao-Deguchi/836564/</link>
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			<title>Because I Love Thee Thou Shalt Die </title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;You want to give to immortality I can fathom it, you inch towards it But you will never arrive Hung with gems, lonely as ever&amp;nbsp..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Nao-Deguchi/834832/</link>
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			<title>Community of the One </title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I have no community Among this community of one&amp;nbsp;Only the salient presence Of selected perceptions &amp;nbsp;Me and this neo-Nietzschean chatt..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Nao-Deguchi/834821/</link>
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			<title>If Glory Could Last Forever</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Rose, watches over me as The valley where lovers were tracedI do not need to go back there&amp;nbsp;Blue, are the hors..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Nao-Deguchi/834722/</link>
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			<title>The Ticking, Linear </title>
			<description>Nothing is certain She said to Uncertainty At the very grip of changeEven she, could not swallow&amp;nbsp;The precipice of time After all, she was born of itNothing physical could escape No architect could undo&amp;nbsp;The mortality principle Nothing is certain she believedBut uncer..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Nao-Deguchi/834721/</link>
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			<title>To Seal This </title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Now I remember you built meA special place in your heart&amp;nbsp;..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Nao-Deguchi/834716/</link>
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			<title>In the Brothel of Magnificent Alienation </title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Abstinence is the last Gratified desire I can own Since desire..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Nao-Deguchi/834712/</link>
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			<title>Hymn from a Garden Invisible </title>
			<description>Does a picture improve hits, testing testing 1-2-3. </description>
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			<title>Glorious Virgins of Literature </title>
			<description>This is for the holy virgins who are most likely Fifteen, so filled with morning&amp;rsquo;s longing &amp;nbsp;A symmetry of spring &amp;amp; summerOh I know! I&amp;rsquo;ve read all your pen&amp;nbsp;Had to offer the world, and I like To read your prince of everything lines&amp;nbsp;Your lyrics that beam..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Nao-Deguchi/833533/</link>
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			<title>Myth of the Laughing Universe </title>
			<description>There is one prayer Caught in the hearts Of every echoed soul-in-forms I can hear it in the &amp;nbsp;Lamb&amp;rsquo;s innocent call Shepherd of old In the youth of all-times In the old eyes&amp;nbsp;Where the sun&amp;rsquo;s descentWas marked by The merry bells rungA hundred welcoming spr..</description>
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			<title>Glassy Lights of Capitalism </title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;In a chandelier of empty-clear coke containersIt came to me, transluscence is key These mornings so full with angular ice The strange drunken thirst, for sovereign equality &amp;nbsp;Of socialism, democracy could not be it Capitalism, with so many hidden wounds The faulted lions, t..</description>
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			<title>Metallic Self </title>
			<description>Late in the day There was a gradual clearing Of the fog, like in middle-age The crisis past, the youth &amp;nbsp;So Maligned, we laughTo ourselves, under our breathWrung itself like a sponge The sophistry it still comes out&amp;nbsp;Like a no-color agony The habit to Punish oneselfEv..</description>
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			<title>Here Mouthed the Flutes of Hell </title>
			<description>I quivered with just a lookIt didn&amp;rsquo;t take long to passA pause, a hook &amp;nbsp;And the subject was droppedRooted, in the left atrium Of my little heart&amp;nbsp;Lithe and silentI watched while takingFledgling notes &amp;nbsp;From far beneath In social standing and commandLike ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Nao-Deguchi/833108/</link>
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			<title>Lessons from Scandinavia </title>
			<description>I paraphrased lunar November Into velvety DecemberUntil I could feel Jesus hanging And children singing Christmas carols &amp;nbsp;These were the golden illusions Of our special and particular Anatomy of monotony I gave myself to sleepers in darkness&amp;nbsp;And managed a half-smile T..</description>
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			<title>To Sing Right Puissantly </title>
			<description>In the arpeggios of consciousness Spirit and space have fulfilled their function And I eat bread just to eat &amp;nbsp;So that my voice will be nourishedI dream of the unfulfilled futureAnd yearn more than anything &amp;nbsp;In this world, for my airy dreamsA concerto of star-furred legion..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Nao-Deguchi/833082/</link>
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			<title>A Cradle Song</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;Sweet dreams, returnTo the loving shadeOf No-time, hush nowThere is only mercy there&amp;nbsp;To follow you into your roundSweet dreams, return In such pleasant streamsThat the loving world &amp;nbsp;Would return you the mythsOf easy illusions, unfettered joysThe condition of..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Nao-Deguchi/833072/</link>
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			<title>From the Beholder </title>
			<description>I was of three mindsOne, the beauty of inflections Two, the hunt for mysteryThree, the indecipherable cause&amp;nbsp;These were just my belongingsThe imagined golden birds?The loving songs that wouldNot rest in my heart &amp;nbsp;An immense dew of seekingThat would not rest No matter..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Nao-Deguchi/833065/</link>
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			<title>Like Mere Statues Against a Clear Sky</title>
			<description>The whole world inchesTowards inclusive speakers That do not understand the questions Of the common person well &amp;nbsp;We tried to widen our sensesUnder the spinning of the sun The entire community transitions Like a lean and hungry encyclopaedist&amp;nbsp;Who believes knowledge saves..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Nao-Deguchi/833054/</link>
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			<title>After Japan </title>
			<description>After Japan &amp;nbsp;We are both alikeThe routine I know so wellLife contracts and death expires&amp;nbsp;An expected releaseInto nothingness You fear it, I don&amp;rsquo;t &amp;nbsp;Imposing separation Where our life Was a wicked immersion &amp;nbsp;Into absolutes Even the clouds couldn&amp;..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Nao-Deguchi/832851/</link>
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